The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATES…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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